In case you recently observed unexpected drops in Wikimedia site traffic from France, see below.

Pine

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From: "geni" <geniice@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2016 1:55 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] We appear have been partially blocked in France (probably accidentally)
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:

Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to
their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun
effect of  DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source
(among others):

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur-bloque-l-acces-a-google-pour-les-clients-d-orange_5014900_4408996.html



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geni

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